Composable DataOps Blog
Composable DataOps Blog
Today’s BI tools are similar to reading an interactive newspaper. Normally they’re read-only views looking at data about a day old (depending on when the transactional data was moved into the reporting warehouse), and they provide some slicing / dicing and…
Have you ever wanted to export all your contacts out of Webex? If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to retrieve all your contact information from Webex, you’re not alone. Many users, including myself, have encountered situations where the need to…
Modern web applications are excellent tools for managing, viewing, and collecting complex data models. With a sleek interface backed by a well-crafted schema, it’s easy to take total control over the data you need to acquire, process, and analyze. But most…
SQL is one of the most powerful tools in a developer’s toolkit — but there are plenty of clients, managers, and even some more technically-inclined engineers who have little to no idea how to write a SQL query that will…
Composable DataOps Platform is an end-to-end data discovery, orchestration, analysis, and visualization platform. It offers integration with all sorts of data sources that you can mash together, has a vast array of visualization and reporting capabilities, and includes powerful dashboard…
Organizations that have truly embraced Big Data have shifted away from monolithic, traditional architectural models that fail to manage the new data paradigm of nearly unlimited amount of high-variety and high-velocity data. Instead, these forward-leaning organizations have come to adopt…
A core capability of Composable is your ability to integrate a variety of analytics together no matter how they’re built or where they’re located. We have many analytics tools available directly within Composable, but you also have the flexibility to…
In this increasingly complex and interdependent world, challenges arising from global competition is being felt by almost every organization across every industry. These challenges are further accelerated and intensified by the rapid development of big data and analytics. Organizations, and…
In the ever-evolving realm of data analytics, software integration, and end-user development, it’s no surprise that the market is inundated with a multitude of products vying for attention. As a potential client recently pointed out, distinguishing one product from another…
In Composable’s DataFlow Designer, we’re always looking for ways to make learning how to build powerful DataFlow Applications quicker and easier. We already offer some great resources, including sample DataFlows that show exactly how Modules can be used and tutorials here on…
In this post, we will go over how Composable solves the problem with updating Modules, while avoiding breaking-changes to callers. Versioning is a tough problem. When code takes a dependency on your interface, and you need to update it ……
I recently came across a scenario where I needed to do some maintenance on a client’s instance through our APIs. This particular Composable instance has Windows Authentication enabled, but also has a Forms Authenticated admin account on it. Since Windows Authentication…
Everyone has them laying around their computer somewhere: folders full of loosely formatted files. It could be text, xml or csv data that was created for that one time use that is now becoming multiple use. The original person and…
Composable offers a wide range of tools for working with your most important data tables, regardless of how large or complex they might be. But even with our toolbox of helpful table modules at your disposal, some dataflow applications might demand dynamic…
At Composable, we are strong proponents of incorporating Continuous Integration into our development process, which entails running comprehensive test suites on every code change we make. As part of our commitment to quality, we continuously strive to enhance our Code…
Here at Composable, we use Slack for most of our day-to-day communications among the team; but much of the benefit of Slack comes from using its fairly robust API to have various other webapps and programs interact with or post…
When you’re working with lots of data, few tools are more useful than a powerful querying language like SQL. The ability to isolate the data you’re looking for, make useful transformations, and generate statistics can be the difference between gaining genuine insights and being…
Those who have used the <ScriptManager> tag in an ASP.NET application know it to be one of ASP’s stronger features. Using ServiceManager to generate AJAX code allows you to hit a WCF endpoint with minimal effort, and avoid nasty serialization…
Major transformations are shaping the global economy, and it is now clear that organizations with the resources and know-how to leverage the large volume of both internal and external data being generated today have the competitive advantage. However, gone are…
I started to think more about the data prep and cleansing use cases, and why someone would choose to develop those as Composable Dataflows versus using something like Python scripts. Yes, either one will get the job done, but there are…